News and Notes: September 28, 2009

A poem by Justin Hamm (MFA '05, fiction) appears in the new issue of JMWW:
the electric widower

Travis Mossotti, third-year poetry MFA, had his poem "Inside the Skull" chosen as an honorable mention in the 2009 River Styx International Poetry Contest:
River Styx

This Wednesday (9/30), we will be holding our second In-House Reading of the semester from 4-5:30 in the Missouri River Room, located on the second floor of the SIUC Student Center.

And here are the charming readers:

Ruthie Awad (1st year Poet)
Leslie Adams (1st year Poet)
A.K. Thompson (2nd year Fiction)
Brooks Rexroat (2nd year Fiction)

"Arachne's Tapestry," a poem by Kerry James Evans (MFA '09), appears in the new issue of the Pinch, the literary journal of the University of Memphis.
The Pinch